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Cervical cancer is highly preventable, yet it kills roughly 300,000 women each year. Working together, South Africa’s health and education leaders have built a school-based health delivery system that is vaccinating girls against HPV.

Rwanda and Bhutan are on track to eliminate the human papillomavirus (HPV) – the leading cause of cervical cancer

This week we commemorate World Immunization Week, an annual celebration emphasizing the need for collective action to safeguard people from vaccine-preventable diseases.

Tuberculosis remains a global health threat and despite routine vaccination with BCG, the vaccine used to prevent TB, this burden remains highest across the African continent.

The current visit, lecture tour and associated social media campaign by UK based cardiologist Aseem Malhotra in South Africa has raised public safety concerns among clinicians, scientists, and public health specialists in South Africa

Pneumonia is the leading infectious disease killer in the world, claiming the lives of an estimated 2.5 million people in 2019, including 672,000 children under five and 1.2 million adults over 70 years, according to the Global Burden

Dr Edina Amponsah-Dacosta, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at VACFA, penned an article in The Conversation that explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has widened immunisation gaps in Africa. Please find the full article here:

Dr Benjamin Kagina, Senior Researcher and Vaccinologist at VACFA penned an article for The Conversation “Making COVID vaccines in Africa: advances and sustainability issues”. The article discusses the urgency of Africa&rsqu

Dr Benjamin Kagina, Senior Researcher and Vaccinologist at VACFA penned an article for D C Development and Cooperation “Covid-19 vaccine rollout: upsides and downsides in Africa”. The article explores the negative impacts the COVID-19 crisi

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Over a year into the biggest vaccination campaign in history, more than 10.6 billion doses have been administered across 184 

Read news about the COVID-19 vaccines at The Conversation.

The health authorities in Malawi have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after a case was detected in a young child in the capital Lilongwe. This is the first case of wild poliovirus in Africa in more than five years.

New Global Dashboard on COVID-19 Vaccine Equity finds low-income countries would add $38 billion to their GDP forecast for 2021 if they had the same vaccination rate as high-income countries. Global economic recovery at risk if vaccines are not equitab

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has revealed the vulnerability of immunisation systems worldwide, although the scale of these disruptions has not been described at a global level. This study aims to assess the impact of COVID-19 on routine immunisation using t

Progress in the development of a vaccine against COVID-19 disease

Expert opinion by Dr Benjamin Kagina on science based protection for COVID-19 in Africa

Expert opinion by Prof Gregory Hussey and Professor Mark Hatherill on the implications of the BCG vaccine & COVID-19 in South Africa

The Vaccines for Africa Initiative has received a new grant from Wellcome Trust to inform the setup of a Regional Scientific Hub.

Dr Benjamin Kagina, Research Officer and Vaccinologiest within VACFA, UCT penned an article for The Conversation: Africa on "How the DRC's Ebola crisis has led to children dying from measles"

The WHO (World Health Organisation) is rolling out the pilot program for the malaria vaccine in an effort to ease the malaria disease burden and save lives in Africa